New patent for cybersecurity firm LogRhythm

BOULDER — LogRhythm, a Boulder-based cybersecurity firm, was granted a new U.S. patent.

The United States Patent and Trademark Office granted U.S. Patent 10,091,217 to LogRhythm, which acknowledged the company as the creator of data monitoring methods that enable risk-based classification of data. It’s a critical component necessary to enable security operations center teams to focus their resources on the most critical and impactful security events, the company stated in a news release.

The patent specifically centers around LogRhythm’s risk-based prioritization algorithm, which uses environmental risk characteristics and threat context to assign a risk-based score…